[REBOL] Re: FYI: Once was lost but now is found (Editor window in view)
From: jasonic:panix at: 21-Nov-2001 0:27
> Just a neat trick, that I found one day, (Only for windows) if you have a
> window that appears in the taskbar, but not on the screen, right click the
> taskbar button, select Move from the context menu, for the final touch of
> magic, press any one of the arrow keys, now when you move the mouse around
> the window will follow!
Thanks..yes very nice.
KeyKit uses something like that too. KeyKit is a superb MIDI processing
environment complete with its own object-oriented language whcih is also
used for the very clever KeyKit graphical user interface. Very good ideas
there at many levels. Like ERBOL, powerful, deep, moutains of fun.
http://nosuch.com/keykit/
I still miss the Amiga's screens! Anyone ever seen that anywhere else?
KeyKit has a wonderful 'pages' metaphor which is sort like like a static
version of it
[no window shade dynamics]. It allows one to reduce visual [widget] clutter,
but it also becomes a cool highlevel object handling interface. One can save
and load the contents of any page much like REBOl handles files and ports. I
recommend any REBOLERS really into REBOL/View or and thinking of extensions
to play aroudn wiht KeyKit for couple of hours to see what I am talking
about.
Free, with source code, and executables for Win95/NT, Linux, and Macintosh.
<OT: hotjkeygeekiness>
It always seems like the good UI ideas in Windows are the lost and forgotten
ones.
Usually one stumbles across them when the cat decid to talk a stroll or I
drop the phone or somethnig. My favorite [non-obscure ] top N win
timessavers:
1. maximize all windows most of the time
2. WINDOWS/"START" + m = Mimimize ALL
3. ALT+TAB to get what you want or ALT+SHIFT+TAB if its a long list of open
stuff
4. periodically when too many windows are open clean up again with WIN/START
+ m
5. WIN/START + e = opens up file explorer
6 TAB, backsapce and the 4 arrow keys do all the rest. adding SHIFT
reverses the work flow
The main reason I like this is it encourages 2-handed computing. I am not
religous about it, but when doing heavy repetitive graphics work, way with 6
apps [dreamweaver, flash, ACDSee, Fireworks, UltraEdit, IE] plus folders for
media content this really kicks in.
</OT>
./Jason
